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We develop a self-consistent version of perturbation theory in Liouville space which seeks to combine the advantages of master equation approaches in quantum transport with the nonperturbative features that a self-consistent treatment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-20 Clive Emary

Recent results on the annulus partition function in Liouville field theory are applied to non-critical string theory, both below and above the critical dimension. Liouville gravity coupled to $c\le 1$ matter has a dual formulation as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Emil J. Martinec

Motivated by the supersymmetric extension of Liouville theory in the recent physics literature, we couple the standard Liouville functional with a spinor field term. The resulting functional is conformally invariant. We study geometric and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Juergen Jost , Guofang Wang , Chunqin Zhou

There has been recent interest in the question of whether four dimensional scale invariant unitary quantum field theories are actually conformally invariant. In this note we present a complete analysis of possible scale anomalies in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-24 Adam Bzowski , Kostas Skenderis

In this note, we study Liouville type theorem for conformal Gaussian curvature equation (also called the mean field equation) $$ -\Delta u=K(x)e^u, in R^2 $$ where $K(x)$ is a smooth function on $R^2$. When $K(x)=K(x_1)$ is a sign-changing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-18 Li Ma , Yihong Du

We study the noncommutative \phi^4_4-quantum field theory at the self-duality point. This model is renormalisable to all orders as shown in earlier work of us and does not have a Landau ghost problem. Using the Ward identity of Disertori,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-09 Harald Grosse , Raimar Wulkenhaar

We compare the standard and geometric approaches to quantum Liouville theory on the pseudosphere by performing perturbative calculations of the one and two point functions up to the third order in the coupling constant. The choice of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Pietro Menotti , Erik Tonni

We use analytic (super-)conformal bootstrap methods to derive explicit expressions for the structure constants of $\mathcal{N}=1$ Liouville CFT in the `timelike' regime of the superconformal central charge. The obtained expressions take the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-30 Beatrix Mühlmann , Vladimir Narovlansky , Ioannis Tsiares

We present a dispersion relation in conformal field theory which expresses the four point function as an integral over its single discontinuity. Exploiting the analytic properties of the OPE and crossing symmetry of the correlator, we show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Agnese Bissi , Parijat Dey , Tobias Hansen

We obtain nonperturbative results in the framework of continuous Liouville theory. In particular, we express the specific heat ${\cal Z}$ of pure gravity in terms of an expansion of integrals on moduli spaces of punctured Riemann spheres.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 M. Matone

We investigate general observables of the complex Liouville string with worldsheet boundaries. We develop a universal formalism that reduces such observables to ordinary closed string amplitudes without boundaries, applicable to any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-13 Scott Collier , Lorenz Eberhardt , Beatrix Mühlmann , Victor A. Rodriguez

We argue that quantum Liouville field theory supplemented with a suitable source term is the effective theory which describes the short-range correlations of the gluon saturation momentum in the two-dimensional impact-parameter space, at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Edmond Iancu , Larry McLerran

We consider the ${\cal N}=4$ Liouville theory by varying the linear dilaton coupling constant $\cal{Q}$. It is known that at two different values of coupling constant ${\cal Q}=\sqrt{{2\over N}},-(N-1)\sqrt{{2\over N}}$ system exhibits two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-03 Tohru Eguchi , Yuji Sugawara

Timelike Liouville theory admits the sphere $\mathbb{S}^{2}$ as a real saddle point, about which quantum fluctuations can occur. An issue occurs when computing the expectation values of specific types of quantities, like the distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-21 Jonathan Maltz

We deal with the higher-order fractional Laplacians by two methods: the integral method and the system method. The former depends on the integral equation equivalent to the differential equation. The latter works directly on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-07 Ran Zhuo , Yan Li

Liouville Field Theory (LFT for short) is a two dimensional model of random surfaces, which is for instance involved in $2d$ string theory or in the description of the fluctuations of metrics in $2d$ Liouville quantum gravity. This is a…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Hubert Lacoin , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

In (2+1) space-time dimensions the Einstein theory of gravity has no local degrees of freedom. In fact, in the presence of a negative cosmological term, it is described by a (1+1) dimensional theory living on its boundary: Liouville theory.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-15 Glenn Barnich , Andrés Gomberoff , Hernán A. González

In this paper, we analyze the constraints imposed by unitarity and crossing symmetry on conformal theories in large dimensions. In particular, we show that in a unitary conformal theory in large dimension $D$, the four-point function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-25 Abhijit Gadde , Trakshu Sharma

Liouville conformal field theory (LCFT) is considered on a simply connected domain with boundary, specializing to the case where the Liouville potential is integrated only over the boundary of the domain. We work in the probabilistic…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Guillaume Remy , Tunan Zhu

We employ the conformal bootstrap to re-examine the problem of finding the critical behavior of four-Fermion theory at its strong coupling fixed point. Existence of a solution of the bootstrap equations indicates self-consistency of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Wei Chen , Yuri Makeenko , Gordon W Semenoff